He said, as he slipped his feet into his sandals, “You’re right. We don’t know love, until we know God’s love.”
With that, he turned away, a smile on his face, and i watched as the doors of the lift closed behind him.
This was shared by my father’s friend, Jeffrey at the first wake service [...]
Archive for August, 2006
My Father (II)
Posted in Musings on August 31, 2006 | 8 Comments »
My Father (I)
Posted in Musings on August 30, 2006 | 16 Comments »
It felt cool.
Not stone cold or anthing, as i had imagined it to be.
Cool.
So this was how he departed – his wife, one child out of four beside him, and a smattering of brothers and sisters from the church – in a class B2 ward with five other men dying slowly of cancer around him.
No [...]
port of call
Posted in Poetry on August 27, 2006 | 2 Comments »
it hung, in the corner
of our sight, beckoning, welcoming,
bidding farewell, then darting,
weaving through the fronds
of an interminable line racing
to the terminal.
incandescent, brilliant red,
it gave off no heat, the cool
of the morning dampening,
blanketing what, perhaps,
stirred and coiled within.
suspended, it was a world away.
he lay, in the corner
of our sight, hair strewn, he’s sprawled
across [...]
Love.
Posted in Musings on August 22, 2006 | 18 Comments »
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all [...]
A Bicycle Lesson
Posted in Poetry on August 20, 2006 | 6 Comments »
don’t saeng nyeat* your body [...]
My National Day (II)
Posted in Musings on August 9, 2006 | 19 Comments »
A rather eventful National Day.
i was reminded rather pleasantly of what patriotism amounted to for me today.
i spent half the day at my aunt’s place in Bukit Timah, a gorgeous house in the style of traditional Asian architecture – high ceilings, wood, wood, wood, all around and clever openings for natural light to fill the [...]
My National Day
Posted in Musings on August 8, 2006 | 6 Comments »
So today we celebrated National Day at Cedar.
There were the usual proceedings of an outdoor parade, where the various uniformed groups (Red Cross Youth, Girl Guides, NCC and NPCC) did a brilliant job of marching and executing other assorted foot drill manoeuvres. The school did a great job of applauding them as well.
The uniformed groups are a [...]
Meet the Parents…not the Ben Stiller movie
Posted in Musings on August 6, 2006 | 11 Comments »
It was Sec 3 Meet-The-Parents session on Friday.
I’m not sure if all my colleagues share the same sentiment as me, but i truly enjoy meet-the-parents sessions.
Maybe it’s because i get to put a human face to all those parents i call up and talk to when their daughters are sick and absent from school.
Maybe it’s [...]
My Reason
Posted in Musings on August 1, 2006 | 7 Comments »
What is your reason for living?
This question came up during a Macbeth lesson today. We were considering the reasons why the two murderers, who would go on to murder Banquo, had no qualms in doing so.
There were a few possibilities:
1. Life for them was meaningless, which meant that they had nothing to lose by killing [...]
